Look at how fast Excel loads. Compare to modern high-end PC with it's latest version.
Office really chugged on the PCs of the time though. We can debate whether modern Excel actually delivers enough more value than historical Excel to justify being as more resource-hungry, thus slower to load, as it is. But historical Excel appears fast on modern hardware, even in emulation, because the CPU, RAM, and permanent storage have had 30 years to evolve since it was released. Contemporary 386s and 486s would not have been that snappy.
I came to write exactly this comment.<p>The thing runs instantly. And that's in a VM in Javascript.
I was expecting it to boot to DOS and then having to typing "win"
Plenty of people would have used this purely for Cardfile.<p>em-dosbox is a good project.
"For the best experience, use Chrome."<p>That's not Windows 3.11. That kind of thing is circa 2000, and a state none of us should want the Web to return to.
Exited to dos, found Bubble Bobble in GAMES directory and started to play. And that's mostly what I used to do as a kid at the times of Windows 3.11!
Can we have icons like these again please.<p>I started from Windows 98 and always loved the icons. They actually represented the application and purpose. These days they are more focused on looking modern. Lots of times they are not even distinguishable between each other.
what is this feeling? oh, yes, it's damn nostalgia
I loved messing around with this for a short time. Very nostalgic.
Just a black screen for me.
I've been playing freecell on it for the last hour or so